Body [in] parts
Subtitle: bodies and identity in Sade and Guibert
By: Clara Orban.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethlehem [PA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780934223973
Subjects: Sade, -- marquis de, -- 1740-1814 -- Criticism and interpretation; Guibert, Hervé -- Criticism and interpretation; Body, Human, in literature
Other titles: Body parts
Description: "Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert explores the link between Herve Guibert, one of France's most provocative contemporary writers who died of AIDS in 1991, and the Marquis de Sade, the most notorious Enlightenment libertine. In both authors bodies lose their corporeality. They are denied a history through shifting biographies and autobiographies, then lose their physical reality in time. Bodies are objectified and mechanized before being cut up or imprisoned as a way to dehumanize them. Ultimately they become ghosts who haunt the texts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-159) and index.